My work draws on both landscape and memory to create a sense of place where form and air mingle with each other. The dense atmosphere of the paintings is arrived at through an accumulation of small marks and subtle changes in color and value. Through this layering, I attempt to make space tangible. The starting point for color choices in my work is often an observed natural phenomenon – fog playing between tree branches, the darkening sky before a thunderstorm. I am drawn to moments when air feels thick, when space has a presence as real as that of solid objects. In building up the paintings, I explore the tension between disparate elements – line and tone, structure and space, form and formlessness – searching for equilibrium until a strong, yet soft, place seems to have been breathed into existence.